Consider privacy safeguards when sharing clinical images

Key takeaways:

The growing use of total body photography in dermatology requires privacy considerations.

These informed consent, regulatory compliance and data governance, particularly when it comes to AI image classifiers.

Imaging is increasingly used in dermatology for diagnostics rather than exclusively for documentation, raising important concerns about a lack of professional guidance when it comes to protecting patient privacy, researchers reported.

“There is an increasing awareness of the need to protect patient privacy when using total body photography,” Liam J. Caffery , PhD , research fellow and affiliate of the Centre for Health Services Research at the University of Queensland, told Healio. “Total body photography may be visually identifiable, as they include the pat